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Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by DennisP on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:00AM (#23650638)
Over the past year the DAI token on Ethereum has tracked the US dollar better than that, without requiring anyone to hold collateral off-chain.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/multi-collateral-dai/

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Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by dtech on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:21AM (#23650760)
Pegging your currency to another currency and claiming it's more stable is cheating and doesn't really solve the problem.

Like the US can stop PayPal from providing financial services, they can too stop banks from storing USD collateral to such parties.

Also I don't agree with your "tracked better than that" claim: DAI/USD has a 15% drop and increase in a few months, about the same as USD/EUR in 5 years.

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Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by Stevvo on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:46AM (#23652548)
DAI is not backed by Usd collateral, the collateral is a basket of other crypto currencies.
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